World hunger
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Veterans of the struggle to feed the world’s neediest people say they’ve never seen anything like the crisis facing them today. A rapid increase in commodity prices that is endangering the poorest of the world’s poor also is threatening to push millions of others into poverty, primarily urban dwellers in many countries who so far have been able to feed their children and send them to school.
Argentina
Italy
Pakistan
Swaziland
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